Chapter 33

"I am not letting you talk me into a quickie in the car before work again. I'm pretty sure Webber saw us and now I'm exhausted and my shift hasn't even started yet." I say making Jackson laugh as we get dressed in our scrubs.

"Stop complaining, you know you enjoyed it." He he smirks kissing me.

"I did, very much." I smile "Are you excited to perform your first cross facial nerve graph today?" I ask.

"Yeah, Mark's had me prepping for this surgery for weeks now. I can't wait to actually perform it. What does Shepherd have you doing today?"

"I'm actually with Bailey, I don't know why, but she specifically requested me." I shrug.

"Must be something big."

"Yeah, I guess. I'm about to go meet her, catch you later." I say kissing him before going to meet Bailey at the front desk.

"Dr. Bailey, you requested me." I say.

"Yes, follow me Garcia. This is a very important patient, I unfortunately have a very full schedule today and you're the only resident I trust to be my proxy plus the patient specifically asked for you. No one touches this patient but you. You will run every test I ask for, you will report every result back to me personally. This woman has lost a husband and son in this hospital. I will not have another O'Malley lost under this roof." She sighs.

"Mama O'Malley is our VIP?" I ask before we walk into her room.

"Liliana Garcia." She smiles seeing me.

"Just as you requested." Dr. Bailey smiles.

"It's been so long and it looks like you've gotten even more beautiful since I last saw you. Come over here and give me a hug." She says.

"Mama O'Malley it has been a while, I've missed you." I say walking over to her and hugging her. "Now let's see what's going on here, your chart says you had surgery three weeks ago at Seattle Pres for gallbladder removal."

"I've gone back there a couple of times and they always tell me I'm fine and send me back home."

"Bring me a 20 gauge just in case and benzoin and you know, it's freezing in here have someone take a look at the thermostat." Dr. Bailey tells a nurse.

"Yes doctor." The nurse nods.

"I'm going to apply some pressure to your abdomen and you let me know if you feel any discomfort, okay." I tell her before I start examining her.

"The boys insisted I do my surgery somewhere else, after what happened here with Harold and Georgie." She winces as I apply pressure.

"She's got some midepigastric tenderness, we should check that gallbladder." I say.

"Have you been experiencing any fevers at all Louise? Any pain, vomiting?" Dr. Bailey asks.

"Yes actually I have." She says smiling at me.

"Mama O'Malley those aren't good signs." I say.

"I know, I'm sorry. It's just, you don't know how proud it makes me to have you as my doctor. It feels like just yesterday you and Georgie were interns coming to my house on the weekends for dinner and now you're my doctor. You're all grown up." She smiles.

"Thank you, it's my pleasure to be your doctor today." I smile.

"Garcia, let's get a C.T., C.B.C, lyres and a liver panel and let's get another couple of blankets." Dr. Bailey says.

"Okay." I nod.

"I kept hearing Georgie's voice saying, mom, get a second opinion, go to Seattle Grace they'll take care you" Mama O'Malley says.

"We will, we're going to take very good care of you" I smile. Dr. Bailey has to go check on some other patients, so I tend to Mama O'Malley. I have to go take her chart to the nurses station and she's sick of laying in that hospital bed, so I get her a wheelchair so she can come with me while I go to the front desk and I can go ahead and take her to CT.

"So tell me how have you been, catch me up on everything's that's been going on in your life." She says.

"Things have been going pretty good for the most part, except I almost died a couple of months ago in car crash." I say.

"Oh my god." She gasps.

"But I'm completely fine now and I had the most amazing man by my side to help me through every step of my recovery." I smile thinking about Jackson.

"I can tell by that smile on your face that you're in love, so tell me about this amazing guy."

"His name is Jackson, he's a doctor here. I gave him a really hard time when we first met, but eventually I gave him a chance which turned out to be one of the best decisions I've ever made. He's definitely changed my life for the better. He's so caring and compassionate, I just don't know what I'd do without him." I say.

"Well he sounds like a stand up guy, the type of guy Georgie would approve of." You know he never liked any of your exes." She says making me laugh.

"Believe me I know." I say.

"So are you and Jackson planning on getting married or having any kids anytime soon." She smiles.

"I don't think we're planning on doing either anytime soon, but definitely eventually." I say.

"Callie." Mama O'Malley says happily seeing Callie and Arizona walk around the corner.

"Oh my god, mama O'Malley. It's so good to see you." Callie says hugging her. "I know I haven't called and I meant to call so many times, but you're here now. Why are you here now, are you okay? Is she okay Garcia?" Callie asks me.

"Yeah we're hoping. I just had to drop off her chart and we're waiting for CT to open so we can run some scans." I say.

"Hello." Mama O'Malley says to Arizona.

"Hey." Arizona smiles.

"Oh right, this is um, Dr. Robbin's." Callie says nervously. She had never mentioned to mama O'Malley that she started dating women after her and George got divorced.

"Louise O'Malley." The guy from CT calls.

"Well that's us." I smile wheeling her to CT.

"Goodbye dear." She says to Callie. After taking her to CT and running some scans, I don't like what I'm seeing on the scans so I take her to an OR to perform a endoscopic ultrasound where I see she's got scar tissue and inflammation around the remnant cystic duct meaning she's going to need surgery. I page Dr. Bailey before explaining the procedure to Mama O'Malley and getting her prepped for surgery then taking her back to the OR. Dr. Bailey lets me perform the surgery since that's what Mama O'Malley wants, but she comes with me to the OR just in case anything goes wrong.

"Okay, probe passes easily through the common duct. One more biopsy and I think we're ready to close." I say, but Dr. Bailey doesn't say anything. "Dr. Bailey is there something wrong? Did I miss something?" I ask.

"This woman worked so hard to raise her son and then one day he just threw himself in front of a bus to save someone else." She says.

"That was just the type of guy George was, he was so selfless." I sigh.